Dr. Michael Hogarth is an Internist and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego Health. He earned his medical degree from UT Southwestern Medical School, completed his Internal Medicine residency at UC Davis Medical Center, and pursued advanced fellowship training in medical informatics through the UC Davis Department of Pathology.
A pioneer in digital health, Dr. Hogarth authored one of the earliest books on the internet and medicine (An Internet Guide for the Health Professional, 1996), co-developed an early web browser, and developed one of the first clinical knowledge delivery web portals. Today, the portal is integrated with the UC Davis EHR and is used by hundreds of clinical providers daily.
His research often bridges computer science and medicine. His current interests include software development methods, database systems, natural language processing, and quantum computing. His Erdos number is 4 (https://www.csauthors.net/distance/michael-hogarth/paul-erdos).
He joined UC San Diego in 2017. Throughout his tenure at UCSD, Dr. Hogarth has continued to drive innovation. He leads the ACTRI Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (BIDS) unit and serves as the informatics leader for the UCSD Clinical and Translational Research Hub, supported by an $80M NCATS award. In 2018, he created one of the first Trusted Research Environments ("data enclave") in the US and launched the Florence Nightingale Initiative, which gives UCSD researchers access to real-world clinical datasets in a high security computing environment. He established the Nightingale Data Set, comprising 6 billion data points from 1.2 million patients. Most recently, he co-developed the UCSD BioSignals repository, linking over one million biosignals (ECGs, PPGs, bedside telemetry) with patients in the Nightingale dataset. The resource is used for machine learning model development within the secure enclave.
He has spearheaded informatics strategy across major collaborative initiatives, including the Athena Breast Health Network, the I-SPY2 adaptive breast cancer trial, UC-Rex (the precursor to the UC Health Data Warehouse), and the 50+ site ENACT network. Additionally, for over two decades, he has been a national leader in modernizing public health vital statistics infrastructure. As Principal Investigator for the $22M California Integrated Vital Records System, he oversees the platform used statewide to record vital events — including registering 300,000 deaths and 500,000 births annually.
Dr. Hogarth is also a dedicated educator and has designed over a dozen courses across multiple graduate programs. Over his two decades as a UC professor, he has personally taught over 70 course sections in biomedical informatics, reaching over 1,200 University of California graduate students.